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locus classicus: a classic place: The most typical or classic case of something; quotation which most typifies its use. locus minoris resistentiae: place of less resistance: A medical term to describe a location on or in a body that offers little resistance to infection, damage, or injury. For example, a weakened place that tends to be reinjured.
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These turning points were viewed as changes from one kind of life, and attitude toward life, to another in the mind of the subject: the locus classicus is Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos C204–207, which in turn gave rise to Shakespeare's delineation of the Seven Ages of Man.
The Tusculan Disputations is the locus classicus of the legend of the Sword of Damocles, [16] as well as of the sole mention of cultura animi as an agricultural metaphor for human culture. [17] [18] Cicero also mentions disapprovingly Amafinius, one of the first Latin writers on philosophy in Rome.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi is a Latin phrase, literally "What is permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for a cow". The locus classicus (origin) for the phrase is the novella Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing (1826) by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, although it is not entirely clear that Eichendorff coined the phrase himself.
The locus classicus for the sense of epyllion as a hexametric mythological poem that is not only comparatively short, but also imbued to some extent with the characteristics of Hellenistic poetry is Moritz Haupt's 1855 study of Catullus 64, [4] but it is likely that Haupt was using a term that had in the preceding decades become common to ...
The Mahanama sūtra has been called the "locus classicus on the definition of upāsaka." [11] This sutra is preserved in five versions (two in Pali, ...
The locus classicus for these practices is the biblical accounts of the Chariot vision of Ezekiel and the Temple vision of Isaiah (Chap. 6). It is from these, and from the many extra-canonical apocalyptic writings of heavenly visitations, that hekhalot literature emerges.